Character Contest 69: Faceoff

With thanks to Hammerknight for the suggestion, your Character Design Challenge this week is to create an awesome face. That's right, all entries this time around must be a portrait only of someone who looks interesting, cool, and/or awesome. When I say portrait view, I mean a close-up of the character's head, roughly from the shoulders up to just above the top of the head.

I'm particularly interested in cool-looking faces, though that's not a strict requirement. In other words, if you're doing an image of a knight, it's probably a good idea to put his or her visor in the up position, but you won't be disqualified if it's down instead.

For me, I'm going to be most impressed by faces that look distinctive, as if it could be a picture of an actual human being versus a sort of generic comic book person.

That's not to say you have to make a human face, of course. I'm sure we'll see our fair share of aliens, robots, and "other", all of which I look forward to very much as well!

In addition to the above constraints, the usual rules apply as well:

Use only a HeroMachine applet (no PhotoShopping except for basic cropping) to create a PNG or JPG of your entry, named as [your name]-[character name].[file extension]. So DiCicatriz, for instance, would save his "Bayou Belle" character image as DiCicatriz-BayouBelle.png.

Enter the name of your entry and a link directly to the image in a comment to this post. The image cannot have been used in any previous HeroMachine character design contest.

The link to your image should go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this). If you see "preview" or "rotate" somewhere in the link you're probably doing it wrong.

I'll choose a winner next Monday, who will receive his or her choice of any item or a portrait to be included in the final HeroMachine 3 program, or a "Sketch of the Week" style black and white illustration (you pick the subject and I draw it up however I like).

No limit on entries this week, so knock yourselves out. Good luck everyone!

uhh…i just wanna tell you…i have a group of Hero Artisant…they like this web so much…so why dont you make a group contest next time…how’s that sound..??? if you dont like it its okay i just giving a suggestion LOL

I don’t mind at all. I was born in Mexico City, my parents are both Mexican however my mother has a lot of European ancestry which accounts for my lighter skin and colored eyes. Most people assume I’m American or Spanish on first glance.

@SeanDavidRoss (34): Thank you, kind sir. I’m afraid Nimble Jack and any future pieces you enter will be a tough nut to tangle with in this competition though. I’m just trying to keep up with the Joneses! 🙂

@Atomic Punk (36): Now that is hee haw hilarious! And thanks for the kind words.

Second entry, a close up of the newest applicant to the Sparkle Girls. A sexy, showgirl dance troupe who are the main attraction in The Glimmer Club which is itself an exclusive venue for the elite of the underworld set.

Dominic “Dom” Volos. Former Guilded Age cold-hearted businessman, currently a vampire living in the slums among the homeless. After a terrible scandal full of sex and murder, Dom Volos was buried alive beneath his own mansion, which was looted and burned to the ground. He woke up a vampire in the middle of the Great Depression, and found himself empathizing with the poor for the first time. Now he’s made it his mission to protect the downtrodden and bring down the powerful, no matter how many lives it may cost.

The Absolver. A hunter of infernal creatures ordained by the Vatican. His right eye was that of a demon, implanted into him through ancient rituals so that he may see through the disguises and illusions of those he hunts.

Galactic Wrestler, 98 times bigger than planet Jupiter. Have 6 right eyes that can see through 6 dimension, and 1 left eye… Have 6 tentacles in his backhead, the tentacles can grow 12 times bigger. His finishing move is: Andromeda Slam.

Sadly I have (what I consider) a great idea, I just don’t have nearly the time to pull it off. Assuming it is allowed, maybe somebody else could attempt it. I was going to do Mount Geekmore or Mount Nintendmore… attempting to put famous characters from those categories on a mountain face ah la Mount Rushmore. Would be funny to see imo.

@dblade (84): 16 now. That’s the most I’ve ever entered to a contest (this is my 5th). 🙂 2nd place goes to the Two Great Tastes contest last month, which I entered 11 times and got 1 Finalist. So in theory I should get at least 1 this time. In theory. 🙁

Kaylin88100, you always do good work (and I haven’t actually looked at any of the ones for this contest yet), so don’t take this personally — it’s definitely meant as a general statement, not a specific one to you, at all.

But, in general quantity != quality. Entering multiple times does not necessarily increase your chances of a win. Sometimes a person with only one submission comes away with the win because they NAILED it on that one.

@Jeff (86): I know what you mean, but I have a lot of good ideas that I want to try (at least I think they’re good) so I try them all. It doesn’t mean I put less effort into each idea, which I think some people might if they were doing lots. Plus, I enjoy making them so much that I don’t really mind about the winning part. To me the only thing about winning is that I would get to ask for an item 🙂

Here’s my first entry. I just focused almost 100% on the face, since it seemed right for the contest. I wanted to go realistic, so I went with a rough-looking soldier. Also, I have to say, that for some weird reason, this ended up looking the actor Sam Worthington. I think it does, anyway. And I didn’t even mean to do that!http://i744.photobucket.com/albums/xx88/jzelger/SoldierFace.png

Sorry it’s been so long. Been busy and limited to an iPod touch in the last few weeks. Anyway, here is my character, Jyn. Think of a male version of Jean Grey, 300 years old, able to come back from the dead and not bat-shit crazy. Also, that scar on his chest is the only one that will ever show, thanks to the “Phoenix Blessing” he received.

My second entry got ruined by an unexpected handling of custom colours in HeroMachine (you can see an unfinished version in my ‘Dark Herd’ thread at the UGO forums), so this time I went Black and White. I was debating whether to enter it like this or to wait and add shadows and highlighting, but I kind of like this one as it is, simple, so I’m going with it. Here’s ‘Elijah Blue’:http://forums.ugo.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=79324&d=1311756307

Wow, it’s been a long time since I saw a HM contest (I was at summer camp and had no internet), and I love the theme for this one! Well, this is a headshot of a character concept that I have been working on for a while.

This is an apocolyptic, zombie themed idea that i came up with and i hope you guys enjoy :…(and for the record, i didnt know how to upload it like the way u did in the example so this is the best way i could, hope its works! it not let me know and Ill try again!)

Well I had to enter this contest. For one thing I don love face, and two … the number of the contest LOL 😀
I have several I thought would be good for the contest, but decided to do a new one just for this contest … although it is for my AD&D game I am going to GM in the Ancient Grco-Roman wolrd.

@ jojo n friends (128): When you are on the album page with your image just right click it and “View Image”. This will take you to a page with just the image. Copy the current web address and use that as the link.

Sorry if this is kind of random, but I think that it is awesome that everyone here has a different style to their characters. For example, I just took a look at one of Asder’s faces (145), and it reminded me of mine (126). However, though they are similar in concept, they are completely different in exicution, which I think is really awesome. I love how Heromachine allows you to make a character exactly how you want to make it. So, this is really just a big thank you to Jeff, and a shoutout to all of you for making each character awesome in every way possible 🙂

Yeah, I hate the Azrael-Batman, too. He tried to kill Tim Drake/ Robin! Tim is my favorite character in the history of forever, so Jean Paul Valley is very close to the top of my “lame superhero’s” list. Along with Superman. Yes, I went there.

Known only as “The Colonel”. this mystery man is thought to have once been The Man in Red, the world’s first costumed man of mystery, though he doesn’t look old enough to be been active for over 70 years. The Colonel heads the sprawling superhero clan known as “The Family”. Seldom active in the field, he has none the less displayed a devastating mastery of Tai Chi, and extraordinary strength.

Basically there was a girl I knew in High School that I LOVED and she had a somewhat gothic style… i took the hair color off one of my favorite actresses (if you know who then your as big a nerd as I am) Put it all together and I got this.

This time I wanted to experiment with creating a portrait with out the use of any actually head, face, or body parts. I primarily used backgrounds, and hand held items to creat the desighn, it may not be all that emotive but it was fun so here it is.

Final entry. Admittedly, the majority of my entries have been close-ups not portraits. I also realize late that my robots are reversed. The angel should be on the right shoulder. Oh well, I’m having fun.

This contest went beyond a new level of awesome. Folks, we’re travelling through planes of Nirvana! Good luck!

It is Husani a Cat Elf Sensite of Sharess for a game I’m playing hi in.
For those who have no idea what I just said he is a Specialty Priest of a form of Bast in her Sex Kitten asspect … basically … he’s a sacred Gigalo. But really it is all about Pleasure in all forms not just sex. Drinking, Great food, Music, Dance, Poetry, Jokes, Massage, Sunning …

So here is Husani laying under a tree on a warm day, being a little seductive.
Don’t worry … this IS a Face Off entry … it IS safe for the workplace.